admission
/ədˈmɪʃən/noun
admission is spelled A-D-M-I-S-S-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is addmission: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 99 of all searches for the word. Admission is a noun meaning “The act or practice of admitting”. The plural of admission is admissions.
How many letters and syllables are in admission?
| Letters | 9: A-D-M-I-S-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,595th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, addmission, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell admission?
Admission is spelled A-D-M-I-S-S-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 99 of the searches for admission in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is admission?
Admission appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce admission?
- US /ədˈmɪʃən/
- UK /ædˈmɪʃ.n̩/
Admission has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Mélange_a_trois-admission.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with admission?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as admission from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃən/):
- position
- competition
- opposition
- permission
- composition
- acquisition
- coalition
- physician
- politician
- nutrition
- expedition
- ambition
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of admission
- admissions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does admission mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or practice of admitting.
- 2
Permission to enter, or the entrance itself; admittance; entrance; access
I request admission for two adults.
- 3
The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgement; concession.
- 4
Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
- 5
A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
- 6
UKDeclaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
- 7
The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
There is no way he has seen that show, the admission is more than he makes in a week.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Admission in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Zulassung, Aufnahme, Einlass, Anerkennung, Eintritt , Zutritt |
| Portuguese | admissão , joia |
| Spanish | admisión |
| French | admission |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does admission come from?
Borrowed from Latin admissio, admissionis; compare French admission. See admit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).